ANT215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Pragmatics
18 May 2020
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Early pragmatics (prelinguistic communication - eyecontact, nonverbal and verbal turntaking, joint visual attention) Child has about 50 words and start combining (around 18 mo) Emergence of syntax and morphemes (24-36 mo) The connected and contingent flow of language between individuals: development. Teaching a child to perform a developmental skill with specific materials does not lead to conceptual understanding. I. e. wanting a 5 mo old to start walking it"s impossible it can"t be taught they are not developmentally (cognitive and motor) ready. Exposure promotes but does not speed up development. A child"s level of thinking impacts/ limits how and what they are capable of learning. Learning occurs when a child applies the developmental skills they have to acquire new functional/pre-academic / academic skils. Development occurs when a child acquires a new cognitive skill (limitation) or a more advanced level of thinking / reasoning. It is important to take a child"s developmental level into considerations when program planning as it affects.
